Time for patience

On the other hand, publishers are not rushing George Bush for his memoirs. "Given how the public feels about him, I think patience would probably be something I would encourage," Paul Bogaards, at Knopf, told Associated Press. Jon Karp, at Twelve, said "President Bush is perceived as a unilateral cowboy who didn't respect other nations" so foreign publishers would not rush to buy his memoir as they did with Bill Clinton's. At home, though, Karp said: "Maybe only 30 per cent of the public is still behind him, but 30 per cent of 300 million people is not a small number."